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Travel articles
Beidaihe, Hebei, China Beidaihe (北戴河区), 280km east of Beijing, is China's highest-profile seaside resort |
Botswana wildlife bonanza in Okavango Delta and along Linyanti River
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Cheung Chau Bun Festival in Hong Kong Video I shot of the Bun Festival, which is like an carnival cum exorcism. |
Cheung Chau, Hong Kong
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Enchanting Hong Kong guidebook
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Fung Shui - Chinese geomancy in Hong Kong Hong Kong has held fast to ancient, esoteric beliefs including fung shui |
Hong Kong Hiking
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Hong Kong Nightlife - bars n discos A swift tour round Hong Kong bars, pubs n discos |
Javan Jungles inc Ujung Kulon Indonesia
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Kawah Ijen sulphur mine on Java in Indonesia The Ijen volcano complex dominates the landscape of easternmost Java. Active craters include Ijen, which for decades has been mined for its sulphur. |
Lantau Island, Hong Kong
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Many Splendoured Hong Kong
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Mount Kinabalu, Borneo Rising above lush rain forest to barren peaks, Southeast Asia's highest mountain is a study in contrasts |
New Territories Hiking, Hong Kong Rural Hong Kong has a host of marvellous places to visit, and trails to explore. |
North Yorkshire inc Scarborough in winter Even though Scarborough is my hometown, winter may seem a strange, even crazy time for a holiday on the coast of northeast England. |
Old Towns and Snow Peaks inc Shangri-La in Northwest Yunnan
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Shangri-La, Yunnan, China
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Sri Lanka Wildlife and Culture Travel Tale
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The 25 Best Day Walks in Hong Kong hiking guidebook Hiking book on Hong Kong, by me; classic routes in pocket sized guide. |
To the Spice Islands of Wallacea
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Wild side of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong Scenes of the wilder side of Cheung Chau - an island in southwest Hong Kong, during spring 2010. |
Inspirational People
Allen Lien In October 2002, boxes of clothes began arriving in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, and they were all addressed to the |
Dinosaur hunter Dong Zhiming
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Dr Yang Lihe helping former leprosy patients Dr. Yang Li-he has spent his life helping cure leprosy. Now he is helping former patients to rebuild their wrecked lives. |
Garley fire rescue A helicopter crew rescues people from the roof of a burning building in Kowloon. |
James Reynolds typhoonhunter and volcano videographer
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Jessie Yu - Hong Kong Single Parents Assoc founder The best way to get ahead, says this tireless Hong Kong philanthropist, is to help yourself. |
Jill Robinson helping bears First Jill Robinson was shocked, then she set out to stop the suffering |
Maasai safari guide Jackson Looseyia
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Mother Ko's fight for justice The more lawmakers ignored her, the more determined she became to seek justice |
Mountain Dog and rebuilding schools in China
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Panda expert Pan Wenshi
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SARS doctor Yannie Soo A mysterious illness was striking the medical staff down one by one. How could they fight back? |
Teacher Lin helps kids in Taiwan Teacher Lin has a dream, in which more and more needy children find their home sweet home |
Creativity
Latest on Global Warming n Conservation
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Time, I think, to start a thread with some info on |
Enchanting Hong Kong guidebook
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Hong Kong Outdoors wall calendar 2019 Calendar with Hong Kong landscape and wildlife photos by Martin Williams |
The 25 Best Day Walks in Hong Kong hiking guidebook Hiking book on Hong Kong, by me; classic routes in pocket sized guide. |
Cheung Chau PhotoExplorer in Hong Kong Cheung Chau is a small yet fascinating island, offering a chance for a wonderfully varied day trip. There's a village beside a harbour that's home to one of Hong Kong's largest fishing fleets, and with the three-storey houses arrayed along narrow streets it has an almost Mediterranean atmosphere. The only car is a police car. |
Beidaihe among China coast bird sites suggested for World Heritage Great to see Beidaihe among China coastal sites of importance for migratory birds, aiming for World Heritage listing.
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Fightback Needed as Science and Life Support System Under Attack Instead of environmental enlightenment, swathes of society have lurched towards anti-science; yet this planet is our life support system. |
James Reynolds typhoonhunter and volcano videographer
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Old Towns and Snow Peaks inc Shangri-La in Northwest Yunnan
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Science and Conservation
Turtle Park, Malaysia Green turtle conservation on Pulau Selingaan, Sabah, Malaysia |
Bauhinia - Hong Kong orchid tree Bauhinia, emblem of Hong Kong, is a tree with beautiful, orchid-like flowers. |
Hong Kong Wild Stars Hong Kong's rare dolphin, spoonbill, tree frog, and a dragonfly |
Reptile search in HK
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Captive breeding Philippine Eagles Domingo Tadena: Captive breeding Philippine eagles |
Healing Power of Pets Pets can help people heal from illnesses |
Black-faced Spoonbill Birders though Black-faced Spoonbill was common, till they found it was almost extinct. |
Openbill Storks
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Not BB i birding humour The magazine for the serious birdspotter |
Not BB ii The magazine for the serious birdspotter, Vol II |
Not BB III The magazine for the serious birdspotter, Vol III |
Southwest Yunnan birding inc Gaoligongshan and Hornbill Valley
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Wuliansuhai Birds, Inner Mongolia Birds at Wuliansuhai |
Deep Bay wetland in Hong Kong Deep Bay wetland, Hong Kong - internationally important, especially for water birds |
Hong Kong Black Kites Black Kite is one of Hong Kong's most familiar birds. |
Hong Kong Birding intro Birding in Hong Kong |
Basic info on wild birds and H5N1 avian influenza Notions that migratory birds are responsible for spreading the New n Nasty H5N1 Bird Flu Variant around Asia are quackers (chiefly looking at 2003/2004 outbreaks) |
Bird Flu inc H5N1 Info Info and links re bird flu, especially the nasty H5N1 variant in Asia |
Beidaihe - Bird Migration Hub of the Orient
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Beidaihe Autumn Bird Migration Report Autumn bird migration at Beidaihe, China, 1986-1990 |
Beidaihe autumn report - species accounts Beidaihe autumn bird migration report (1986-1990): species systematically treated |
Beidaihe autumns conclusions Autumn bird migration at Beidaihe 1986 to 1990 conclusions |
Beidaihe Can Create Exciting Bird Reserve I believe that at Beidaihe, we have the chance to create the world’s most exciting reserve for migratory birds. |
Checklist of Beidaihe Birds Checklist of the birds of Beidaihe, east China |
Conservation Plan for Beidaihe A conservation plan for Beidaihe, China |
Fightback Needed as Science and Life Support System Under Attack Instead of environmental enlightenment, swathes of society have lurched towards anti-science; yet this planet is our life support system. |
Secret World of Hong Kong Water Supply
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Tick Tock Goes the Population Bomb It is only unforeseen events like the industrial revolution and the “green revolution” that helped feed many more people and stave off catastrophe. |
Unrelenting China eco horror show threatens us all Although much has since been said and written about the need for China to reverse its environmental decline, recent years have abounded with news reports telling of the nation’s earth lurching from bad to terrible. |
Waste incineration alternatives including plasma arc gasification Can Hong Kong find no better way of dealing with waste than shipping it to a beautiful coastal area and setting fire to it? |
Hong Kong Belching Buffaloes n Bubbling Paddies and the Mystery Methane Rise
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James Hansen Godfather of Climate Change retires yet will be very busy Instead of aiming for a leisurely life after work, Hansen plans to better focus his time on climate science, along with communicating the science and its policy implications. |
A Man for All Sequences Frederick Sanger Frederick Sanger made pivotal contributions to studying the chemistry of life. |
And Man Created the God Particle World’s biggest machine surely discovers the elusive Higgs boson, helping explain mass. Further quests await. |
Anti-science idiocy threatens catastrophic consequences We humans seem smart yet have a great fondness for irrational codswallop. |
Blue light at last wins Nobel for LED titans While last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was for an esoteric advance in knowledge — theoretical work on sub-atomic particles, n |
Dreamliner Troubles yet Lithium Batteries Flying High Lithium batteries have proven especially attractive as they produce high power relatively to their size. |
Ebola’s inner rampage and praise for dirt plus optimum sex Though “immune system” is a familiar term, there is still much to be learned about how our bodies defend against diseases. |
Fusion Power and Human Failings There is potential for deriving virtually unlimited clean energy from fusion power, without the severe downsides of nuclear power based on splitting atoms apart. |
Genius of the Jungles: Alfred Russel Wallace Much as Darwin was influenced by his findings on the Galapagos, Wallace drew on discoveries he made on tropical islands where sea level changes played vital roles in determining species distributions. |
Goodbye dinosaurs Hello birds Stunning fossils from Mesozoic Pompeii illuminate the dawn of birds. |
Happy 100th Birthday to the Bohr Atom! Picture an atom, and you may imagine spherical electrons orbiting a nucleus packed with particles like neutrons. |
How to Spot a Scientific Dud Even with science reports, it’s worth remembering the adage: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. |
Laughter n more science in the Xmas season In this season to be jolly, even normally serious scientists may loosen up a little, perhaps publishing frivolous research, and looking on the brighter side of life. |
Leaps of Logic and Faith versus Evolution Science Like all scientific theories, Darwinism has been questioned and tested wherever possible. Among scientists, it has held up well, becoming a pillar of modern science. But this has not prevented attacks, chiefly from outside the scientific community. |
Mapping Our Way to Mind Control? Beyond producing a pretty music album cover, mapping the brain’s circuitry may lead to significant medical advances |
Monster Plants and the Fears of Our Fathers A field called epigenetics concerns ways the DNA code is actually expressed and implemented. |
Of Mice and Men and Memory, Plus the Inception Deception Our memories play vital roles in defining who we are. Yet can you really trust your memory? |
Primordial soup and the life from Mars theory Did life start in a primordial soup on earth, or with chemicals carried from Mars? |
Rise of the Superbugs The age of the wonder drug seems to be drawing to a close, bringing to an end modern medicine as we know it |
Robots Rising Worldwide, there are many developments in robotics, several of which are weirder and wackier than a talking version of a dead novelist and a robot board member. |
Scientific Dieting Cooks Up a Moveable Feast While we can thrive on a variety of diets, it also makes it very tough or even impossible to recommend an ideal human diet. |
Sleep Science plus insomniac fruit flies, angry women and brain-washing Though we spend almost a third of our lives asleep, sleep science did not really begin till 1953, the same year the structure of DNA was discovered. |
So You Want to be a Cyborg? Off-the shelf headsets and DIY implants can help get you started. |
Solar System Weirdness inc Diamond Rain and Ice Volcanoes Earth’s neighbours are far more than simply gas giants and rocky worlds |
The butterfly and the remarkable Professor Hofstadter Hofstadter’s butterfly is a remarkable spectrum first drawn by a remarkable man. |
The Cat in the Box and a Real Eureka Moment October 2012 the announcements of the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, both of which were for work centring on transfers of information. |
Thorium can Power the Planet …. Maybe Thorium, which just might prove key to a new generation of nuclear reactors. |
Volcanoes: Where the Earth Screams From volcanoes on Java, to a supervolcano in Hong Kong, and dormant supervolcanoes today. |
Wonderful World of 3D Printing 3D printing is developing rapidly, with applications including rapidly making complex prototypes, and even creating aeroplane parts. |
A Tale of Two Spoon Bills and East Asia Wetland Threats
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Blog post on holiday in Wallacea After a holiday in Wallacea - northeast Sulawesi and the north Moluccas - in August, I've written an article on travels and som |
Catfish Farm Catfish at fish farm in Java fed dead chickens - helping show integrated fish farming may play role in spreading H5N1 bird flu. |
Confessions of a crazy conservationist I’m about to confess to long-term crazy behaviour on my part. And then, I will read your mind. First, the confession. For over a quarter of a century, I have devoted considerable effort to what may well be a lost cause: trying to encourage far stronger environmental protection. |
Forest Conservation in Indonesian Borneo
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Gurney's Pitta in Thailand Gurney's Pitta back from oblivion |
No use captive breeding rare species if there is no habitat left for them
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Philippine Eagle Mindanao Philippine Eagle conservation on Mindanao, the Philippines |
Saving Yunnan snub-nosed monkey Xi Zhinong - helping save Yunnan snub-nosed monkey |
South China tiger Hunting and habitat destruction have brought these magnificent cats perilously close to extinction. Can the most threatened of the sub-species claw its way back? |
Sundarbans in Bangladesh Here's part 1 of a video I shot, on a trip to the Sundarbans mangrove forest in October 2009: |
Taman Negara rainforest, Malaysia Taman Negara - rainforest national park in Malaysia |
TCM and Conservation Traditional Chinese Medicine and conservation |
Wind farms and migratory birds On wind farms and actual or possible threats to migratory birds, including in China. |
Wonders of Bird Migration - and Threatened Asian Wetlands Birds may undertake marathon flights using astonishing navigation skills – yet are threatened by careless habitat destruction |